Buenos Aires (BA)
Damian and I arrived one day before we met Beau, and one day before we were to check into the apartment. The reason was to take full advantage of our luxurious apartment for a full day and Beau was arriving late so we wanted to get the apartments organised. For those of you who don't know who Beau is, well he is my beautiful older brother (though I am much more mature than him so you would think that I am older when really he is). Beau did not trust my judgement in picking accomodation so he booked it and the result is two neigbouring studio apartments in the nice part of town. A bit more expensive than what I suggested but it was nice and after traveling for 6 months staying in hostels and dorms it's nice to have your own little place.
So Damian and I arrived one day early and stayed at a cheap (slightly nasty) place that had an antique industrial-strength portable floor fan as there were no windows in our room (and the ceiling fan was not functioning). So when we had the fan on it seriously sounded like a helicopter was taking off, which was a bit embarassing as everyone kept on looking in our room as they walked past. It was a old building with high ceiling which did have a lot of character.
Time for lunch, so we headed down to the docks to a place suggested by our Aussie friends that we met in Belize (Ryan and Kate). The place suggested was all-you-could-eat salad bar and meat. I know what you are thinking, it was a very dangerous place to over-eat but we did not do too bad, it was nice to eat lots of salad. After lunch we walked through some dodgy areas (its nice to get a real feel of the city), and watched some tango-ing people while we had wine and pizza for dinner.
The next day (25/2/09) we caught a cab to the apartments and arrived at 10:28am, we were meant to meet at 10:30am so we thought we were right on time. We found out later we were actually a hour late (there are 2 time zones in Argentina which we knew but no one could tell us where the boarder was but we had obviously crossed it coming east from Bariloche).

We got settled in to the apartments and went shopping at the nearby supermarket to get supplies. Nice to be able to buy groceries for a few days!
Beau arrived later in the afternoon and the next few days were spent having fun around the city, drinking and eating too much and getting drunk and disorderly. -Sarah